rcrsn51 mentioned this before:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=658532#658532
While attempting to create a bootable USB-Key frugal install of Exprimo 5.X.3.4.12, I called up gparted intending to reformat the Key. Gparted 0.7.0 in Exprimo 5.X.3.4.12 with 3.4.2 kernel did not recognize the partition table on a Fat32 USB-Key created using some other OS (Don't recall which). Lupu 5.28 does, and Exprimo is able to browse the folders on that Key. Reformatting using either Lupu or the latest Slacko did not create a partition table recognized by Exprimo, and without such table, Exprimo's Gparted could do nothing with it. Precise recognized the table. So did Exprimo 5.X.3..6.2.1 with kernel 3.6.2. Formatting using Exprimo 5.X.3.6.2.2 also produced a partition table unrecognized by Exprimo 5.X.3.4.12.
Another piece of the puzzle: After formatting using 5.X.3.6.2.1, I switched back to 3.4.12 and attempted to install Grub4Dos. Although, while using 3.6.2.1's gparted, I had set the flag to "boot," 3.4.12's Grub4Dos reported that the no flag had been set or it couldn't find it, or something.. Switching back to 3.6.3.1, I had no problem installing Grub4Dos to the Key and creating a bootable Puppy.

my PC is connected with one or two others on an internal ethernet network;

This happened once that the ethernet connection went broken for any reason - this happened using FF14, 15, and now 16.0.1.

Restarting X did not help to get the ethernet connection again.

I would have found a solution whitout need to reboot.
So, as i did not know what to do, i did as on puppies 412, 420 etc..., i went into menu and activated the good-old-manual-internet-connection-wizard.

Using SNS, I finanly got an ethernet connection again ... but before that, exprimo seemed to perform several trials to get the ethernet (i.e. eth0) again:
- there were displayed several times the splash withe/blue-dog-head telling «eth0 is down»;and then nothing more.
- running Simple Network Settings reports that there is no erh0 connection ;
- aftrwds running there DHCP helps to get the internet connection again;

Now when rebooting, i got two times displayed the splash withe/blue-dog-head telling two times one after the other
- «Recquiring IP adress for eth0»
and afterwards, two times again
- «IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xx acquired for eth0» (note: xxx.xxx.xxx.xx is one of my IP adesses)

So Exprimo now looks as if it has two network connection search running parallel;

Now, i left whit the question: «how to get back the eth0 when broken without rebooting?» and without using SNS?

Charlie6. You have 2 dhcpcd running...that is the reason. It behaves as it should when you use SNS without disabling Frisbee first.
If you dont disable Frisbee and you use SNS....you should have 2 parallel dhcpcd running.

You should use first Menu > Network > Frisbee enable-disable manager and disable Frisbee with it and reboot. There is some connections still alive if you dont reboot.
....Or suffer the conflicting 2 dhpcd connections...which probably does not do good for connections.

hi pemasu,
i'm very like the aurora2 gtktheme. it's look like apple, great. . But when I open rox filer, then i want to select a file by keyboard, i have difficult to choose where's the file i select.
i just discovered a way to show the box bounding a file/folder when we select that in rox filer.
there is in /root/.gtkrc.mine, i add a small gtk script and i put a "select.png" in midi-icons. i make it to a pet file.
after install this pet, please select a gtktheme and then apply.
go to rox filer, now we can see that.
thanks in advance

what to do then when network/internet connection has been lost ...? and also whitout need to reboot?

Btw, i disabled Frisbee ...thanks for your reply ...i was not aware of that menu entry ... nor that Frisbee is used for network connection neither ... so thanks for the lesson !
Now there is only one blue-white-dog-telling-«IP...acquired on eth0»

Cheers, Charlie
ps: i did not find the name of the icon of blue-white-dog-telling ...

I'm still using dpup exprimo 3.2.14.2, but media player plugin is crashing all the time.
Maybe that's because it's version 1.0.6.b1?
I want to upgrade it to 1.0.6, but that's a tar.gz file.
I downloaded it, but how do i get that into firefox and working?
thanks

Bruno. Sorry. I have jumped to the 1.0.7b version staight. To get gnome-mplayer and gecko-mediaplayer to compile. You need first gmtk-dev of that version. I have them for those versions I have compiled. Then you compile gnome-mplayer and gecko-mediaplayer from those ....tar.gz source packages.

So....the package you found is for compiling, it is source package. How to compile....it is another story and there is whole compiling thread dedicated in this forum....I dont repeat info found there....here.

But if you want that latest version.....I can upload them to the exprimo repo. I dont upload all the inbuild stuff...which changes frequently....like gnome-mplayer.

After I had a better understanding of how to use the xset screensaver (see my previous post), I wrote a BASH script to correctly handle it. Next I wanted to create a GUI.

I went for BaCon. Not only did I write the dialog with BaCon but also all other handling of xset.

I also wanted to write a help file to inform the user of how the program works, but then I realized that there is nothing better than a graphical representation of what the program is doing. Run the program to see what I mean.

The executable is in C and should run immediately.

The attached file contains:

- Icons: these reside in the same directory as the executable.
- The executable.
- The .bac source file.

Put the executable and icons in a directory of your choice and run it.

The program writes some default values to xset and creates settings file /root/.xsetsaved. After that, these settings can be retrieved, changed and saved again for a next boot. Any changes are on-the-fly and effective immediately, unless canceled.

I'm by no means an experienced programmer and a newby to BaCon (as I am to Puppy). My code is not very clean and efficient. I'm learning along the way. Nevertheless I wanted to share this program and am curious to hear if it works on your system. Maybe I missed something…

Note 1: the program assumes that /root/.xset.sh is present at boot and executed by pupx. Is that true for all Puppies? If /root/.xset.sh is not present, it will be generated.

Note2: xset knows two screensaver modes, regular screensaver mode and DPMS (power saving or Energy Star) mode. The first blanks the screen with or without a simple animation. The latter has three submodes of which I only use the "off" mode, while skipping "standby" and "suspend" mode. Originally, screensaver- and DPMS mode work in parallel. In my program, DPMS mode follows screensaver mode, time wise.

You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forumYou cannot attach files in this forumYou can download files in this forum